RE: Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood

["Gable, Sara" <GableS@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sharon,
 
I'd recommend that you start with:
 
    Kobak, R., R. & Sceery, A.  (1988).  Attachment in late adolescence:
Working models, affect regulation, and representations of self and others.
Child Development, 59, 135-146.  
 
Sincerely,
 
Sara Gable

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Carnahan [mailto:Carnahan@Rollins.Edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 9:21 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood


I am looking for measures of young adult attachment relationships, both as
adults remember their early relationships with their parents and as they
experience those relationships now.  I want to look at individual
differences in these current parent relationships among 18-22 year olds as
they relate to a past history of family disfunction, including abuse.  I am
also interested in how these past relationshiops affect the transition from
adolescence to adulthood in identity formation and the establishment of
intimate relationships for young adults. 
I would also like to learn of model treatment programs or college-level
assistance programs for young adults who are experiencing difficulty with
the transition to adulthood because of a history of abuse. 
(Are there programs, for example, specializing in the transition to college
for children in foster care?)  I welcome suggestions for measures and
reviews I might not have seen. 

Thanks 


Sharon Carnahan, Ph.D. 
carnahan@rollins.edu